Tag archive: X Terminal

With much fanfare—and several months of delay after shifting engineers over to its iPhone effort—Apple shipped Mac OS X 10.5 “Leopard,” the latest version of its operating system for Macintosh computers. Now, four months later, the company has released Mac OS X 10.5.2, a substantial update to its “Leopard” operating system. Apple is recommending it for all users of Mac OS X 10.5 because of numerous… Read More

A potentially severe security flaw has been uncovered in Apple's Safari Web browser, which may enable attackers to execute arbitrary Unix shell scripts on a user's machine simply by following a link on a Web site. The exploit involves the way Mac OS X determines which program it should launch when opening files of a particular type. By renaming a Unix shell script to an extension Safari considers “safe,” omitting… Read More